Word: periled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...draft has never been popular, but has long been tolerated as a necessary evil. It is more insidious than that. Conscription is a totalitarian concept, out of place in a liberal society except in time of national peril. Forcing a man to devote two years of his life to servitude of the state should not be dismissed as a legitimate and unchallengeable exercise of governmental authority...
...Johnson Administration has finally brought the consular treaty it signed with the Soviet Union in 1964 to the Senate for ratification. The treaty, unfortunately has been heavily criticized by a bloc of Senators more concerned with a chimerical Red peril than resumption of the thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations...
...looking 5-ft. 4-in. blonde tumble out of a highflying airplane, crash a speedboat onto a beach at full throttle, ride a wagon hauled by galloping horses, plunge through an opening drawbridge, fall off a roof, and accidentally lean on a dynamite plunger. At the moment of greatest peril, the pixy hollered something like: "Stamp out cramped compacts!" or "Kick the dull driving habit!" or "Don't follow the leader. Drive it!" After which she miraculously escaped disaster-crying "Join the Dodge Rebellion...
Radioisotopes are now commonly introduced into the body's various systems to allow doctors to trace functions and spot malfunctions with sensitive scanners. But radioactivity is the peril as well as the point of using the particles, reported Quinn, since too much of it during the testing can harm the patient. The ideal, therefore, is to find a radioactive substance with a short half-life that will decay quickly after passing on the information doctors need. The problem is that the unstable substances live so briefly they must be manufactured as short a time as possible before their...
Forgetting Tiny Tim. In the view of the year-end magazines, few human activities are so fraught with peril as gift giving. In Redbook, Anthropologist Margaret Mead cautioned parents not to give their children presents that will prevent them from growing up to be "independent, autonomous people." In McCall's, Psychiatrist Eric Berne, author of the bestselling Games People Play, described some of the mean little games people play with Christmas gifts. "Mommies have a game for the younger children called 'Wait 'Til after Breakfast, Dear.' It may or may not develop the children...